The current status of a range of Essex Parks
Farmed (arable) Blake Hall, Absol, Crondon (part), Gosfield, Felix Hall, Hatfield.
Stansted Hall (part), Barrington Hall (part), Hallingbury Place (part),
Ongar, Havering, Pleshey Great, Pleshey Little, Littley, Writtle (plus
many others)
Coniferised (partly) Copped Hall, Chalkney Wood. Thorndon, Weald, Marks Hall
Golf Course Belhus, Audley End, Ongar, Wanstead, Thorndon, Braxted, Crondon,
Gidea (all partly)
Developed (partly) Gaynes (Upminster), Wanstead, Moulsham Hall, Highams, Claybury
(now Repton Park and formerly the hospital), Havering, Wivenhoe
Park (Essex University). Hare Hall. Hargravc, Gidea
Gravel Extraction St Osyth (partly)
Public Park (including Thorndon (N & S), Weald, Hylands. Wanstead, Danbury, Bedfords.
Country Park) West Ham, Norsey Wood, Chalkney Wood, Havering
Roads built through Belhus (M25), Copped Hall (M25), Stansted Hall (Mil), Hylands
(London Road, now A414 and Writtle by-pass A414)
Railways constructed in New Hall, Mistley, Stansted Hall, Hare Hall
Still Privately Owned Rivenhall, St Osyth, Quendon. Braxted. Gaynes Park (Theydon)
Epping Forest Warlies, Copped Hall (both Corporation of London)
Buffer Lands
Aldersbrook is now a cemetery and crematorium. Gilwell is now a Boy Scout camp site, as is
Skreens at Roxwell (in part)
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Essex Parks: Section 1 - Parks in Essex